Meat Beat Manifesto :: Storm The Studio (Sweatbox / Wax Trax!)

From the way Jack Dangers chose multiple versions of the same song to the unexpected blasts of pure unadulterated distortion, to the chugging beats 10 years ahead of their time.

Unadulterated distortion, to chugging beats 10 years ahead of their time

Consider how many boundaries were blasted through and unspoken rules were broken when Meat Beat Manifesto‘s Storm The Studio dropped in 1989. From the way Jack Dangers chose multiple versions of the same song to the unexpected blasts of pure unadulterated distortion, to the chugging beats 10 years ahead of their time. Imagine being the cutter for this record trying to tame Jack’s dissonance and make it conform to the physical limitations of records.

STS was groundbreaking then, and this many years later, no one has even attempted to imitate this glorious clusterfuck of the late 80s. For fun some day, try playing this album for your mom, dad, girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse all while explaining how this is great music and watch the ever-rewarding look of “I don’t know you.” When the really fun musical mayhem parts come. When we get to those spots and the goosebumps rise, that’s what makes us true fans. Others might want to puke, while Zombies absorb it like a plant starved of light.

Storm The Studio is available on Sweatbox / Wax Trax! [Bandcamp — remastered version]